Re: Randy in Nevis

["Robert E. Seastrom" <rs () seastrom com>]

Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> writes:

> On Sep 27, 2010, at 9:30 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
>
> > On 10-09-27 7:20 AM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
> > > "Cannot establish SSL with SMTP server 67.202.37.63:465" does not
> > > sound like a 587 problem to me.
> > >
> > > netalyzr folks?  comment?
> >
> > Sorry, I hit send too soon ...
> >
> > I've heard from a couple of people that the PIX will remap 587 (and 25)
> > to oddball ports if you fiddle the config just right.  Given all the
> > other bogosity that box does with SMTP I wonder if there's truth to the
> > rumour. (I haven't found anyone who can reproduce this on demand, so
> > it's still apocryphal for now.)
>
> 465 is not an odd-ball port, it's the standard well-known port for STMPS.
> Fortunately, few people actually use SMTPS, preferring instead to do their
> security via TLS using the STARTTLS model after connecting to 25/587.

That doesn't explain why the test of port 587/starttls is trying to
connect to the well-known port for smtps.

-r